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Son squirted his urine through mother's letterbox in Hayle

Upset because his mother would not let him stay at her home a Hayle man urinated in a bottle, put the neck of it through her front door and squirted the contents towards her, Truro magistrates heard.

Realising it looked like petrol gave him the idea to threaten her that he would burn her house down, prosecutor Gail Hawkley said.

Nathan Ritchie, 21, c/o Harveys Way, Hayle, pleaded guilty to using threatening behaviour towards his mother Karen Ritchie on January 5 causing her harassment, alarm or distress, and to harassing her on February 3 by sending text messages which were offensive and harassing.

Ms Hawkley said in the past mother and son were in a volatile relationship and he would misbehave at her home and then be asked to leave. On January 3 police were called there and removed him from the premises due to his behaviour. Two days later he banged on his mother’s door, shouting at her: ”I am going to burn your house down, you f…… b……”

Ritchie told the police he was angry because his mother had agreed for him to stay there and then had had him removed. He said when he threatened to burn the house down he had wanted to scare her but would never have gone through with his threat.

The text messages he sent, said Ms Hawkley, included:”I hope you get a disease that will rot you from the inside out.”